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Josef Chochol (13 December 1880 – 6 July 1956) was a Czech architect. He was a key member of Mánes Union of Fine Arts and worked in a Cubist style.
Josef Chochol (13 December 1880 – 6 July 1956) was a Czech architect. He was a key member of Mánes Union of Fine Arts and worked in a Cubist style.
Chochol was born on 13 December 1880 in Písek. He studied architecture at the Prague Polytechnic (1908–1924), then at the academy in Vienna, under the guidance of Otto Wagner (1907–1909). He died on 6 July 1956 in Prague.
He was one of three significant Cubist architects, together with Pavel Janák and Josef Gočár; all three were members of the Mánes Union of Fine Arts. Chochol was a member since 1913 until he was expelled in 1945 for "patriotic deficiency".
Three buildings he designed in Vyšehrad part of Prague are considered masterworks of Cubist architecture:
His other projects were:
Most of his other designs (cubist factory, theatre) were admired but never realized. In 1914, he abandoned the Cubist style and began working in the internationally oriented constructivist style.
Chochol was also active in politics: he was a founding member of the Left Front organisation and the Association of Socialist Architects, and was the only one of the Czech Cubists with strong political views.
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